Song Wan Yue accompanied the old gentleman to play a game, while Da Ya and Er Ya heard the commotion and came over and stood quietly watching.
When they were in the capital, Erma had often watched Song Wan Yue and the old gentleman play chess, and when Song Wan Yue saw that she was interested, she guided her some.
If she had known that Master Wei would not follow her to live in Meng’s house, she would not have followed her to Jiangnan.
When she returned to the house, she saw the paper and pencil on the table, and Da Ya bit her lip. Erma had taught her during New Year’s Eve, and she didn’t know how many times she had practised it on the floor, but when it fell on the paper, it became a black mess.
She put the pen down in frustration, thinking that she was not cut out to write, so she should find something to do.
When Song Wangyue and the old gentleman had finished their game of chess, the servants came over and invited them to the dining room for dinner.
Thinking that with him around, the Meng family would be wary of talking, the old gentleman asked for the food to be brought to his courtyard.
“Yue’er, you go ahead, those two maids will be fine to accompany me.”
Song Wan Yue went to the dining room, all the Meng family were there, Meng Jiao saw her and greeted her as she went over to sit by her side.
The meal was very lively, and after they had eaten their fill and sat and talked for a while, they agreed on the time when they would go to the grave on the following day, and everyone went back to their respective houses.
Meng Jiao took Song Wangyue’s arm and went back inside, took off her outer clothes and nimbly got into bed, urging Song Wangyue, “Hurry up.”
This was the first time she had ever slept in a bed with anyone, whether in her previous life or since she had crossed over, so she also took off her coat and got into bed. Every time I saw sisters in other families, I was envious. Now I finally got what I wanted, I am also a person with a sister, I can also sleep in the same bed with my sister, and I can also wear …… the wrong ……”
She Teng sat back up, “We don’t have the same clothes yet, no, I’ll have the embroiderer make them for you.”
Said, about to order the maid, was stopped by Song Wan Yue, “Today is not early, the embroiderers also need to rest, let’s talk about it tomorrow.”
“No, I have to let them do it tonight, otherwise I won’t be able to sleep. Qingzhu, go and call someone here.”
Qingzhu answered at the door and quickly called for the embroiderers to come over.
Meng Jiao had already dragged Song Wangyue out of bed, urging her to put on her shoes and asking the embroiderer to measure her, “First make her a plain one in the same colour as the one I made a few days ago to wear tomorrow, finish it tonight and make the rest exactly the same as the style and colour in my wardrobe.”
“Yes, Miss.”
“Qingzhu, give them ten taels of silver.”
The embroiderer smiled and thanked them, as embroiderers, it was their job to make clothes for the people in the house, but Miss would give them more silver every time she needed them to make them as early as possible.
The embroiderer and Qingzhu withdrew, and Meng Jiao pulled Song Wangyue back onto the bed.
Song Wan Yue smiled without a trace and said, “You’re just like my sister-in-law, you don’t have a rack at all, I also fell in love with my sister-in-law from the first moment I saw her.”
“Your sister-in-law? The young lady from the Ding Guo Mansion?”
Meng Jiao’s eyes lit up, “Tell me quickly, how did she attract your big brother?”
Everyone loved to hear stories about talented people, and Meng Jiao was just at the age of a young girl’s nostalgia, so she loved to hear them even more.
Ever since she found out from her grandfather’s mouth that Song Si was Yue’s elder brother, she had always wanted to hear more stories about them from Song Wan Yue’s mouth, and now that she had such an opportunity, she naturally couldn’t miss it.
“It’s fate, to say the least, my big brother he ……”
Song Wangyue told her.
Hearing that the two had actually tied the knot over a book, and that Xiao Yao had even been injured for saving Song Si, Meng Jiao was thrilled to hear, “So, it was your big brother who first had his heart set on Miss Xiao, right?”
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have carried her out of the book market without a care in the world.
“Yes, I asked my big brother and he fell in love with sister Xiao at first sight at that time, so much so that he went crazy with joy when he later heard in person that his sister-in-law had agreed to be betrothed to him.”
Thinking of Song Si’s happy face at that time, Song Wan Yue couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Quickly tell me how he went mad with joy.”
Song Wangyue talked for over an hour, even about what happened on the day they got married, Meng Jiao listened as her heart lifted and fell, fell and lifted again, and finally had a look of unfulfilled interest, “I so want to meet your big brother and sister-in-law, to see what kind of people they are.”
“Yeah ……”
Song Wangyue coaxed without a trace, “When we go back to the capital this time, you can follow along and naturally you will be able to see them.”
Meng Jiao’s eyes lit up, “Yes, I can go to the capital, I don’t have anything to do at home anyway, I’ll just tell them that I’m going to the capital to gain some insight, they’ll definitely agree.”
……
The next day, after breakfast, everyone in the Meng family, as well as the old man, Xu and Song Lin and Song Wan Yue, all boarded a carriage to pay their respects at the Meng family’s ancestral grave.
The Meng family’s ancestral tomb was outside the city and the carriage took half an hour to reach it.
Meng had not been back for so many years to pay her respects to her parents, so she collapsed in tears as soon as she got off the carriage.
The rest of the group also shed tears.
The old man also put up incense to make amends to Meng as he had said he would.
It took half an hour to go through the whole thing.
The people were ready to go back to the carriage.
Meng Jiao took Song Wan Yue’s arm and came up to Meng Yang, “Grandfather, this is not far from the village, I’ll take Yue’er over to have a look.”
Meng Yang’s mood had not yet eased up and he nodded, “Go, take a few more subordinates with you, be careful on the way and come back early in the afternoon.”
Meng Cheng, who was walking on the other side, happened to hear this and answered, “Grandfather, I will accompany my two sisters.”
With him accompanying him, Meng Yang was more at ease, “Go on, take care of them.”
Meng Cheng answered and got into the carriage and walked a little way before separating from the carriage in front of him and they went to the farm.
Meng Cheng rode alongside the carriage all the time, saying a few words to them from time to time. He had also often heard about Song Wan Yue from his grandfather and admired her.
Half an hour later they arrived at the stately home.
The manor house was very large, bigger than the Meng family’s house in Jiangling City, and there were several men guarding the entrance, each with a tiger’s back and a bear’s back, and no one from the manor house was allowed to enter or leave at will.
Both workshops were located inside the manor.
Meng Jiao led Song Wangyue inside, introducing her as she walked, “Each workshop has fifty people, all underlings with dead-end contracts, both men and women.”
As she was speaking, a woman came out from inside and froze when she saw Song Wan Yue, obviously not expecting to see her here, “Song, Song, Miss Song, when did you, when did you, when did you come here?”